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"I don't see a switch to the Republican party a good thing. These are disloyal weenies who can't be trusted. No different than Jeffords. Screw 'em."

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You are a nut.....

Born July 8, 1942, in Fort Benning, Georgia, one of our greatest conservative Republicans, Phil Gramm graduated from the University of Georgia in 1964 and went on to get a Ph.D. in economics. Shortly after, he started what would be an impressive 11-year career teaching economics at Texas A&M University.

Gramm decided to turn to politics and was elected to the 6th Congressional District of Texas in 1978. He was re-elected in 1980 and 1982.

After co-authoring President Reagan's economic program, Gramm then made an historical decision by*** announcing his resignation as a Democrat.****

Senator Gramm, first elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House in 1978, says he made his decision to switch when Democrat House leaders made it apparent that there was no room in their party for independent thinkers or conservatives. "Because I had sponsored some of President Reagan's priority legislation during his first term, they retaliated against me and my constituents by taking away my seat on the House Budget Committee," says Gramm. "At that point, it was obvious that the Democrat leadership cared more about partisan power-plays than about the people back home I was trying to represent. That was the last straw."

At the time, many in the media criticized Gramm's decision to switch parties, but after decades of loyal service to taxpayers and America, Gramm's biggest critics became his biggest fans.

"I wrote critically about Gramm's apostasy at the time, but his later actions forced me to change my view of him," wrote Washington Post columnist David Broder. "When Democrats bounced him off the Budget Committee … Gramm did the honorable thing: He resigned his seat, went home and ran as a Republican in a special election, thus letting his constituents judge his actions."

In 1984, Gramm was elected to the U.S. Senate. At the time, he won more votes than any candidate for statewide office in the history of Texas. Gramm would be re-elected in 1990 and 1996.